The media may portray Bernie Sanders as a continuing political threat to Hillary Clinton, but voters aren’t buying: They remain overwhelmingly convinced that Clinton is the likely Democratic presidential nominee for 2016.

The latest Rasmussen Reports monthly Hillary Meter finds that 92% of Likely Democratic Voters believe Clinton is likely to win their party’s nomination, with 62% who say it’s Very Likely. That’s unchanged from a month ago and ties the highest number of Democrats who consider Clinton’s nomination Very Likely in monthly surveys since last July. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on May 11-12, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Most voters (54%) still view Clinton as a political liberal. Only seven percent (7%) think she’s a conservative, while 32% describe the former secretary of State as a moderate. These findings are little changed from past surveying.

Within her own party, however, only 32% see Clinton as a liberal. Nine percent (9%) of Democrats feel she is a conservative, while most (52%) call her a moderate.

Voters in nearly every demographic category overwhelmingly believe Clinton is likely to win the Democratic nomination.

But voters under 40, an area of potential vulnerability for the former first lady, are less certain than their elders that she will be the nominee.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Republicans and 58% of voters not affiliated with either major political party say Clinton is Very Likely to win the nomination.

Sanders’ unexpected success in the 2016 presidential campaign has exposed the growing rift between the Democratic party establishment and the party’s more progressive wing. Still, Democratic voters are more likely than voters in general to think their party should identify with Clinton rather than Sanders.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on May 11-12, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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